Saw a link to lemmy.world on reddit, went to it, clicked ‘sign up’, filled in my info and waited for an email. I don’t get why people think it’s difficult. It’s literally the same as any other website. Reddit’s astroturfing hard on how ‘hard’ lemmy is to use.
I think most of them are being honest. When many people are confronted with a new piece of information something they don’t know they just glaze over.
It’s just like Reddit except there are a bunch of different servers and it’s powered by the fediverse. That’s it right there their first inclination is f*** that s*** I’m out. Somebody said it’s got something in it that I don’t understand so I don’t understand it as a whole.
We need a message displayed to critical junctions. On the front page of any unlogged in site or maybe the front page of the sign up explain to them that there are lots and lots of sites you can use to sign up They can all see the same data you can all subscribe to the same subs. And then another message when you go to post a comment that searches for any community links and gives you a suggestion on how to change them to work from any server. That’s it If you put any more out there than that they’re just going to shut down on you say it’s too difficult too complicated.
Once you’ve chosen an instance, yeah, it’s dead simple.
I think the emphasis on users choosing the instances that best fits them, and discouraging people from going onto larger instances is where all the confusion comes from. Add to this the fact that there’s no way (yet?) to migrate between instances (without starting over again as a new user) puts a whole lot of pressure onto prospective new users.
Saw a link to lemmy.world on reddit, went to it, clicked ‘sign up’, filled in my info and waited for an email. I don’t get why people think it’s difficult. It’s literally the same as any other website. Reddit’s astroturfing hard on how ‘hard’ lemmy is to use.
I think most of them are being honest. When many people are confronted with a new piece of information something they don’t know they just glaze over.
It’s just like Reddit except there are a bunch of different servers and it’s powered by the fediverse. That’s it right there their first inclination is f*** that s*** I’m out. Somebody said it’s got something in it that I don’t understand so I don’t understand it as a whole.
We need a message displayed to critical junctions. On the front page of any unlogged in site or maybe the front page of the sign up explain to them that there are lots and lots of sites you can use to sign up They can all see the same data you can all subscribe to the same subs. And then another message when you go to post a comment that searches for any community links and gives you a suggestion on how to change them to work from any server. That’s it If you put any more out there than that they’re just going to shut down on you say it’s too difficult too complicated.
Once you’ve chosen an instance, yeah, it’s dead simple.
I think the emphasis on users choosing the instances that best fits them, and discouraging people from going onto larger instances is where all the confusion comes from. Add to this the fact that there’s no way (yet?) to migrate between instances (without starting over again as a new user) puts a whole lot of pressure onto prospective new users.